I’d really like to help an author through illustrating and since I am new here in wikihow, I don’t know where to go. can someone recommend me where to start? Thanks!

You’d like to illustrate for an article? You could join the Photo Uploaders

Hi @GlessMarie there are plenty of works to do in the community dashboard ( http://www.wikihow.com/Special:CommunityDashboard ). I would recommend you to copyedit articles here - http://www.wikihow.com/Special:EditFinder/Copyedit and also fixing spellings here - http://www.wikihow.com/Special:Spellchecker . Happy editing!